A Logical Approach to Philosophy

 

A workshop in philosophical logic in memory of Graham Solomon

 

University of Waterloo

9-10 May 2003

 

Friday May 9

 

Session One

3:30  Opening Remarks

 

3:45  Philip Kremer (McMaster University)

         On the 'Semantics' for Languages With Their Own Truth Predicates."

 

5:00  John L. Bell (University of Western Ontario)

         Russell's Paradox and Cantor's Diagonalization in an Intuitionistic Setting’

 

 

Saturday May 10

 

Session Two

9:00  David DeVidi (University of Waterloo)

         Assertion, Construction, and the Axiom of Choice’

 

10:15:  Stephen Read (University of St Andrews)

         Monism: the one true logic’

 

11:30  J.C. Beall (University of Connecticut)

         ‘Double-Aspect Dialethism’

 

 

Session Three

2:00  William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)

         Some remarks on the Ramsey-Carnap reconstruction of theories’

 

3:15  Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto)

         The Identity of Proofs’

 

4:30  Stewart Shapiro (The Ohio State University)

         Externalism, anti-realism, and the KK-thesis’

 

 

All talks in Hagey Hall, Rm 178

 

 

The Fine Print:

All are welcome; no registration fee is charged.  We would appreciate advance notice of attendance, though, along with an indication of intent to join in the banquet (not free, a la carte) on Saturday evening.  Please contact Tim Kenyon.

 

For local information, see the University of Waterloo website.

 

This conference is made possible through the financial support of the Minas Fund.